- Dec 3, 2013
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I have two hard drives in my laptop, an SSD with the OS and a 2nd platter drive. The platter drive (which I use to store music, videos, etc.) is still working somewhat...however very slowly. A few files seem to have become corrupted, it hangs Windows Explorer and other programs, and so on. I managed to save some files off of it, however trying to save huge folders was not really possible. I constantly get the error:
"Error 0x80070079 The semaphore timeout period has expired."
I can override it and get a lot of the files off...but it takes forever. And I think at least a few of the files are corrupted, though it's hard to tell which ones. One of the video files would not play.
I used HDTune and it showed a couple warnings, so I tried to clone a disk image using Paragon. When I tried to clone the drive, it tried to verify 194816 records, however I got error messages like:
"MFT Record 0x1c4cf is unreadable"
Perhaps 12 of those, and then
"There are 0xa bad records. Can't fix."
After that it said "600 GB in 185,386 files" which would indicate about 10,000 files missing...
And...after all that, it said it was done with the process, however now my computer doesn't even recognize the external hard drive that was the backup target...I can't see what's on it. Not sure what that's about.
I might have made some mistakes thus far but if anyone can give me any advice on how to try and get my data off, I'd appreciate it. I have most of the raw data backed up so this is not a catastrophic loss. But it's worth my effort to spend a day or two getting the current data off, since the corrupted data includes work that might take me a week or two to replicate. Should I just keep trying to use Windows Explorer? I managed to get the most vital files off using it, however I'm a bit paranoid some of them might be corrupt. I've also read I should try chkdsk, though others said that was quite risky. Then there are also data recovery programs (ie. Zero Assumption) that I read about, not sure if I should try that. I'm willing to spend reasonable money on something that will likely work, though if I can pursue a solution without spending money that's obviously fine too. I don't think it's worth getting a data recovery specialist for many hundreds of dollars, anyway I live and work in China right now so I have no idea if I could find someone qualified.
Thanks!
"Error 0x80070079 The semaphore timeout period has expired."
I can override it and get a lot of the files off...but it takes forever. And I think at least a few of the files are corrupted, though it's hard to tell which ones. One of the video files would not play.
I used HDTune and it showed a couple warnings, so I tried to clone a disk image using Paragon. When I tried to clone the drive, it tried to verify 194816 records, however I got error messages like:
"MFT Record 0x1c4cf is unreadable"
Perhaps 12 of those, and then
"There are 0xa bad records. Can't fix."
After that it said "600 GB in 185,386 files" which would indicate about 10,000 files missing...
And...after all that, it said it was done with the process, however now my computer doesn't even recognize the external hard drive that was the backup target...I can't see what's on it. Not sure what that's about.
I might have made some mistakes thus far but if anyone can give me any advice on how to try and get my data off, I'd appreciate it. I have most of the raw data backed up so this is not a catastrophic loss. But it's worth my effort to spend a day or two getting the current data off, since the corrupted data includes work that might take me a week or two to replicate. Should I just keep trying to use Windows Explorer? I managed to get the most vital files off using it, however I'm a bit paranoid some of them might be corrupt. I've also read I should try chkdsk, though others said that was quite risky. Then there are also data recovery programs (ie. Zero Assumption) that I read about, not sure if I should try that. I'm willing to spend reasonable money on something that will likely work, though if I can pursue a solution without spending money that's obviously fine too. I don't think it's worth getting a data recovery specialist for many hundreds of dollars, anyway I live and work in China right now so I have no idea if I could find someone qualified.
Thanks!
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